Tracking
Leaving the Room of Requirement, the Slys accompanied the Gryffs to the door of the Rave house, because although the latter would have preferred to return home, they could not because they had used the Time-Turner around two in the morning.
"Hey, guys, I'm so sorry..." Sev told them.
"Well, Sev, don't worry about us," Cecile told him. "For us it's just a day, we'll be at ease anyway. Don't you want to go in and say goodbye to the others?"
"Not at all, I didn't like the party at all, too messy, and if there is any drunk girl left standing I'm going to have to get her off myself. And besides, I don't want these two to see again the embarrassing spectacle that many are putting on. Expect anything when you enter, they are capable of having an orgy."
"Indeed they are," said Sirius.
"See you soon, guys."
They returned to the main stairs and began to go down them, Sev was carrying Ariel and Hippolyta holding hands.
"What is an orgy, Sev?" Ariel asked him.
"When many people do the things that couples do at the same time, Ariel."
"Ugh... how disgusting…"
"Well yes, honey, because those are very private things that have to be done in private and not in front of everyone," Sev opined. By Merlin, how I have changed in just over a fortnight. I already told you that I am in a mess.
Hippolyta asked him, "Prince, are you not angry with me anymore?"
"Not at all, honey, I've already forgotten."
"So... you're not going to read me anymore?"
"Yes, I am going to read you, Hippolyta, I already told you this afternoon. I put your health and your life before everything else."
"But read only what is essential as you told me, okay?"
"No, Hippolyta, no. I'm going to read you thoroughly, everything you think, like the old man does. You asked for it, you can't have any more secrets from me and in summer I won't be able to do it. We must resolve all problems before the end of the term."
"Ugh... Prince... I don't want you to know everything I think…"
"Put yourself however you want, Hippolyta. It hurts me even more than it hurts you. If you don't want me to do it, it's very easy, we forget about each other and that's it, each one on their own, like before May 15th."
"But I don't want that either…"
"Well, I'll leave you tonight to think about it."
"Do you no longer want what we agreed to this afternoon?" the girl asked.
"Of course I want if you want."
"I do want to."
"And I, honey, I'm looking forward to it," he admitted. Sev squeezed her hand and looked at her, she looked at him with infinite love. He stopped looking at her. Ugh… how hard it is going to be for me to read her… I'm already on the verge of crying again. I'll do it when we wake up tomorrow morning, and then I'll have a serious chat with her, hopefully we'll get it all sorted out tomorrow.
They continued down in silence. At the last flight of stairs, about to reach the entrance hall, they found Filch going up.
"Hey, you! You have skipped the curfew," the caretaker rebuked them.
"Don't listen to him, guys, let's go home, don't let go of my hands." Sev didn't stop. "Well, you know what you have to do, Filch, punish us."
They passed by him.
"Hey, stop! You have to tell me your names."
"You already know mine very well, Filch, if you don't remember the kids', I'm very sorry, you won't be able to punish them."
The caretaker was taken aback, they reached the foot of the stairs, in front of the Great Hall door.
"Guys, let's run," he told them.
The three of them ran, laughing out loud, down the corridor that led to the dungeons, the spiral staircase and to the silver-green house. They entered, the Common Room was empty, they threw themselves laughing on the couch, both of them on top of Sev.
"Excellent!" Ariel exclaimed. "We have escaped punishment."
"No..." Hippolyta said. "Prince is going to be punished…"
"I don't care at all, I don't plan to fulfill it, I have a lot to do, that they deduct points from me," said Sev.
"That's how you say it, Prince," said the girl. "You're the best." She ate him up with kisses.
The three of them sat on the couch, Sev in the center of both of them, and they stayed for a while pampering each other.
Finally he told them, "Come on, let's go to bed."
"Do you want me to sleep with you, Sev?" Ariel asked him.
"No, honey, not tonight, nor the rest of the term. We'll sleep together in the summer whenever you want."
"Okay, Sev. Then I'll go up to my room, I'm very tired." Ariel gave him one last kiss and left.
"Good night, honey, see you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow, Sev."
While he waited for the boy to go upstairs, he Tracked Anthony and Jack, who were still in the Rave house. Incredible, I can also Track them from so far away, this Tracking thing is extraordinary. He hugged Hippolyta. "Alone, my love…"
"Are you already reading me?" she asked him.
"No, honey. I already told you that I was leaving you tonight to think about it."
"I've already thought about it, Prince. I don't want to be separated from you for anything in the world."
"Nor I. Come on, go up and get ready to sleep to your room, I'll wait for you in mine."
"And Anthony and Jack?"
"Either they are still at the party or they are already sleeping," he replied. "Don't worry about them, enter without making any noise and that's it, I'll wait for you with my Lumos on."
"Okay."
The girl left and so did he, who continued Tracking Anthony and Jack to make sure they were still on the seventh floor. He went to the bathroom, undressed and put on his pajamas in the light of his Lumos.
Hippolyta arrived, climbed onto the bed next to him and said softly, in his ear, "Tomorrow I'm going to have to put on my uniform when I wake up so I don't leave here dressed in my pajamas. I only have some trousers and I have left them to wash."
"Very well thought out, honey. Then leave your uniform at the foot of the bed so that it doesn't disturb your sleep."
Hippolyta did so and they both got into bed, drawing the curtains.
"I want you to look at me for a little while," she asked him.
"Of course." Sev placed his lit wand between the pillow and the wall. They lay face to face looking into each other eyes, he caressed her face, she placed the locks of his hair the way she liked.
"Do you want me to look at you the way you like?" he asked her.
"No, not now, now I like it better the way you always do it."
"You don't like it so much that I'm bad anymore, do you?"
"You're not bad at all, you just seem that way, you're very good," Hippolyta disagreed.
"Thank you for thinking like that, honey."
"I want to do something, but you won't want to."
"What my love?" Sev asked.
"I want to give you a kiss."
"No, honey, not that."
"You said before that things would happen when I wanted them to happen," she complained.
"But I told you a multiple of three months, starting from twelve months."
"But it can also be a multiple of three weeks and today is six weeks since May 15th."
"Hippolyta, no, not kisses yet. Let's wait a little longer."
"Just a peck."
"What is a peck?"
"A very small kiss on the lips," the girl explained.
Okay, yes, but tomorrow, tomorrow is a new moon, Sev thought. Let's see how I convince her of multiples of three. Ah! I know, tomorrow is the twenty-seventh. "Tomorrow morning when we wake up, okay?"
"But... what about multiples of three?"
"Tomorrow is the twenty-seventh of sixth month, good luck," he responded.
"It's already twenty-seven of sixth, it's already past twelve."
Boof… but the new moon is not in the sky. "Tomorrow, honey. Today I have already kissed too many girls. I want a day that is just for you."
"Sure…"
"Sleep, honey, come on, you're falling asleep," Sev said.
"Prince, please, don't read me, let me tell you things, I'll tell you everything important, please..." she begged.
Ugh… she is about to cry, and so am I… "Okay, Hippolyta, I won't do it, but you have to tell me as soon as we wake up, okay? And if it seems to me that you are hiding something from me, I will read you anyway."
"Okay, Prince. Will you hold me to sleep?"
"Of course my love. How do you want me to hug you? So how are we? How did your Dad hug you?"
"As you wish, Prince, I told you about my Dad to convince you."
"Come then." He lay on his back and offered the crook of his shoulder to her. She snuggled up and also hugged his body, and not only that, she put her leg over his, but she didn't weigh him down at all because she was so thin. He put his arms around her and placed many kisses on her head.
"Are you comfortable, honey?" Sev asked.
"A lot... I hear your heart... I'm going to fall asleep right away."
"It beats for you... Do you want me to turn off the Lumos?"
"Okay."
"Nox."
. . . . . . . . .
Sev woke up in the same position, with a sleeping Hippolyta hugging him, and he looked at the time. Almost ten o'clock, I've slept almost nine hours, good. He Tracked Anthony and Jack. Anthony is in his bed, fast asleep, Jack, asleep too, on the floor of the Rave Room, booahh… he fell flat right there, I'm sure he did it with some girl, I'm very happy for him. Later I'll ask him. Let's see, I'm going to Track them all, so I'm entertained until Hippolyta wakes up.
Ariel is having breakfast in the Great Hall, he has already woken up, it's a shame that today I won't see him until lunch. I hope he finds his friends, or in any case, he will be able to stay entertained with his Jules Verne books that he is loving.
Lily, asleep in her bed in the Gryffindor dormitory, she didn't do it with Sirius, fine. Lauren, walking through the Forest, wow... I reach her until there, the Bond has not diminished its power, nor Lily's, how wonderful. Cecile and Remus in their Fidelius, both asleep. Alice and Frank, together, in his bedroom, also asleep, they stayed late, they wanted to party, I'm happy for them. How good, I can reach all of them too from so far away.
Valerie, in a bedroom at the Rave house, awake, wow… she found someone to do it with. Now that I think about it, last night when I went to look for Sirius, Cecile and Remus, she wasn't in the Common Room or on the terrace with Deborah and Paul, she was already with someone, great, maybe that Chaser who told me about, I'll ask her too later. Today lunch is going to be fun, lots of stories to tell. Andrew, in his sixth-grade boys' dormitory, asleep, poor boy, Valerie doing it with someone and he stayed late and maybe he found out everything, although I don't think so, she would be discreet, she didn't intend to get drunk either.
Deborah, in my Forest clearing, she must be teaching Maida Occlumency. Wow... Deborah never rests, she is wonderful, and I Track her there too, of course, the trust between us has not been diminished at all, at any time. Let's see if she is with Paul, well no, Paul is asleep in his bedroom. Deborah came home early and he stayed to party, or they both stayed and she slept with the Restorative.
Genevre, in a bedroom here at home, also awake, she is doing it with a snake, wow… in which bedroom? In the seventh-year one. Maybe with Brad? I didn't see them last night when I went to look for the others. What a busy lunch we are going to have. I think Valerie and Genevre got together to flirt last night, each with one boy from the other House. Well, mixed couples, great. I could bond with her from here, but I'm going to cut her off, better not, I'm going to keep Tracking her until she's done.
After ten minutes Genevre left the bedroom. He bonded with her. "Good morning, Genevre."
"Wow, Prince…"
"I have been spying on you, I know where you are, you are going down to the Dungeon Room."
"Wow, wow, you Tracked me."
"Tell me tell me. Who did you hook up with last night?" he asked.
"I won't tell you anything, you don't deserve to know."
"Please…" pleading.
"Okay… With Ronald, the Chaser on your team," she responded.
"Wow… I'm very happy, another warrior."
"Sure. Next year, if I don't fix it with Lorenz, you put the two of us as commanders. We get along great, he's a great guy and he's going to continue coming to train every Saturday and Sunday while he's at the Auror Academy."
"Brilliant."
"I haven't told him anything about the subject yet, huh?" the Rave continued. "Just testing, to see if he would serve as commander."
"Being a Quidditch Chaser I think so, accustomed to teamwork."
"Of course, I already did it for that reason, I teamed up with Valerie to look for an alternative. I'm going to continue seeing him in the summer to continue getting to know each other better and stuff. He was amazed by me, we did it twice last night and another time this morning."
"Wow… Genevre."
"You know, both of us were starving. And I have arrived three times, for the little experience that he says he has, he is quite skilled, and very funny."
"Great, I'm very happy for you. And Valerie? She is in the Rave house. Who did he do it with?"
"Let her tell you that, I don't betray other people's secrets," she responded.
"That seems very good to me. Did you give the notes to Lily?"
"Of course, I made sure to look for her before I left."
"Thank you very much, Genevre. I loved your motto yesterday, did you invent it?"
"Of course, inspired by Quidditch, I was already there with Ronald, maneuvers, maneuvers."
"Great, Genevre, tell me more. What are you doing now?"
"I am sitting looking at the window, in case the Bond is broken when leaving the house."
"Sure…"
"You tell me, you don't tell anything," asked the Rave. "You disappeared from the party very early, when I gave Lily the notes I was with them for a while and they told me that you had left without saying goodbye."
"The dwarf, who upset me and made my night bitter. But anyway, I went back later to pick up some of them to take them to the Room of Requirement for a while and I didn't like the atmosphere at all. A lot of people going at it on the floor, and I had to push some girls off."
"Ugh, I'm sorry. You have to know how to be tough if you don't want them to get on your back. You're too good, Prince."
"Yes, I was already thinking about it last night when I was alone. I'm not going to be that anymore."
"I warn you that at first it will be even worse, most girls are into bad and tough ones."
"Ugh… I had to insult one of them so that she wouldn't follow me out of the house to the Room of Requirement," Sev explained.
"Boof… what a cross you have. Because I fell into Rave and eagles are very cold, the same thing would have happened to me in any other House, a lot of slimers around me. That's why I want to change my official partner right away, because now in the Army they wouldn't leave me alone as soon as they found out that I'm no longer with Lorenz. Yesterday I protected myself by spending the whole night with Ronald."
"Sure…"
"You should do the same, pretend that you are with someone," she suggested. "Have you slept alone?"
"I haven't."
"With who?"
"I'm not going to tell you," he responded.
"Then I know who with. Sorry again for intruding, that was not what I intended, but to give you ideas for an official couple."
"Well, it's okay, I could have lied to you."
"Well, as I said, think about protecting yourself by pretending that you have a partner like I am going to do," suggested the Rave.
"I won't, Genevre. I am like I am, I am what I am. I am a boy, strong, no one is going to do anything to me that I don't want. If I have to be unpleasant to preserve my integrity and dignity, I will do so without hesitation at any time."
"I'm warning you, you're going to make them hornier."
"Well, they will get cold," he said.
Hippolyta stirred. Sev took his wand and cast the Muffliato.
"I leave you, Genevre. Go have breakfast, go ahead, you have to regain energy."
"See you here these days, I plan to spend all the nights we have left with Ronald."
"Great." He unbonded from her.
Hippolyta raised her head to look at him. "Prince…"
"Good morning beautiful. Did you sleep well?"
"Yes and you?"
"Wonderful, honey," he replied.
"Have you been awake for a long time?"
"Less than half an hour."
"Do you know what happened to me? That when I woke up I didn't know where I was. Has it ever happened to you?" the girl asked.
"Yes, once. I think that happens to you when you sleep in a new place."
"When did it happen to you?"
"The first morning I woke up in this bed, September 2nd of '71," Sev answered.
"Wow... Well, it was the first time that has happened to me, also in this bed, something more in common."
"How wonderful, my love."
"Have you read me while I was sleeping?" asked Hippolyta.
"No, honey, I haven't, you can't read someone who is asleep, they have to be conscious."
"So, what have you done? You've gotten bored."
"Not at all, I was enjoying being hugged," he replied.
"Of course... like me yesterday. What time is it?"
"Ten, twenty-three minutes, forty-eight seconds."
"Ugh... we can't give each other a peck at nine anymore..." she lamented.
"It's okay, my love, we'll give it to each other at ten twenty-four."
"Better at ten twenty-seven."
"Of course, because twenty-seven is nine times three, your number and mine," Sev added.
"That is, and also three multiplied three times."
"Of course... good luck. And today is the twenty-seventh."
"And yesterday we shouted twenty-seven slogans, three times twenty-seven, we already have another lucky number, this one of the two of us," said the girl.
"True."
"We have all the odd multiples of three. Three, nine, fifteen, twenty-one and twenty-seven."
"It's true! I hadn't realized," he exclaimed.
"Hey... don't shout, you're going to wake up Anthony and Jack."
"Don't worry, I've made the Muffliato."
"Ah, of course... I'm stupid, I had forgotten," said Hippolyta.
"Well now that I think about it, your next birthday is the fifteenth, good luck if we wait until then to be boy and girlfriend, don't you think?"
"Booff… that's a long time, Prince. You're not going to last that long without being with other girls."
"Well, if you agree, I can."
"Keep an eye on the time, huh?"
"Yes... it's still twenty-five," he said.
"When it is twenty-six we get ready, I want the exact second that it is twenty-seven."
Sev laughed. "Hippolya, don't get so obsessed, planning things so much doesn't usually turn out well."
"Yeah... you're right. Yesterday I was going to take care of you and I didn't. Did the girls bother you a lot when you came back to pick us up?"
"Yes, Hippolyta, quite a bit, I had to push them away from me."
"It's just that everyone was doing boyfriend things in the Common Room, that's why at night I wanted to kiss you so much."
"Of course, you shouldn't have seen all that, the older ones behaved terribly, they should have waited for the little ones to go to bed or hide in the bedrooms. I didn't like yesterday's party at all."
"You also did boyfriend things with Deborah at the last house party," she reproached.
"Well yes, Hippolyta. Did you see me?"
"Yeah."
"Ugh… I'm so sorry. It was because I got drunk, I was very unconscious. That's why I told you yesterday that I regretted getting drunk at the party."
"Sure…"
"You should never get drunk," Sev continued. "You do things you shouldn't do and then you regret it."
"Of course... like your father when he beat you."
"That, but his thing was worse, he didn't regret it afterwards and continued getting drunk and beating me every day, and also my Mum."
"Ugh… Prince… poor…" sad.
"Come on, don't be sad, sorry for bringing up the subject again, it's already twenty-seven. Give me that peck." They gave it to each other. "Mmm… how delicious."
"Later we'll give each other two more, at thirty-three and thirty-nine."
"Ugh… Hippolyta, I don't want to be looking at the clock all the time, we have to talk about important things."
"It's true, it's true."
"We'll give them to each other, okay? But without looking at the time."
"Okay."
"Do you have to go to the bathroom?" he asked.
"I do."
"Well, I'll go first and tell you if there's a clear path, okay?"
"Okay."
Sev got out of bed, went to the bathroom, Tracked Anthony, he was still fast asleep, Jack was also still asleep in the Rave house. Great.
He hurried and returned to Hippolyta. "Honey, free way."
The girl went to the bathroom in her pajamas and barefoot like him, she had not brought slippers, she ran without making the slightest noise. Plus she is also stealthy, naturally. Of course, she also usually runs away from her parents' house.
It didn't take long for her too, they got back into bed.
"Are you hungry?" he asked her.
"I am."
"Ugh… I'm going to look for something for you in the kitchens."
"No, Prince... you have to dress and everything."
"No, honey, I put on a nigthgown that I have and that's it, I have slippers too, I'll go like this."
"Okay, go then."
"Of course, I'm hungry too," said Sev. "What do you want me to bring you? Sweet or salt?"
"Two sandwiches."
"Very well, I'll be back in five minutes. Draw the curtain."